Poisoning Quotes

• The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

  Francois Fenelon

  Art, Want, Appetite

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• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  C. Everett Koop

  Snakes, Danger

  "The Grandfather of Preventative Health: A Farewell to Dr. C. Everett Koop" by Adam Bosworth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.

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• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Mean, Dinner, Cooks

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• Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

  Jonathan Winters

  War, Cancer, Heart

  "The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of Jonathan Winters". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 2, 2012.

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• In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Erosion, Fuel

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there, got food poisoning, and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.

  Steve Sabol

  New Orleans, Nfl, Broken

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, People, Chinese

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

  Johnny Depp

  Pain, Eye, Alcohol

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• Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

  Alice Hamilton

  Real, Medical Problems, Speech

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.100, Read Books Ltd

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• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

  Richard Ernst

  Air, House, Parent

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• I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

  Steven Wright

  Food, Humor, Cooking

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• Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.

  C. J. Cherryh

  Kitchen, Wells, Happens

  C. J. Cherryh (2006). “Pretender”, p.107, Penguin

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• There's nothing worse than poisoning our children's minds.

  Michael Savage

  Children, Mind, Our Children

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• A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

  Stendhal

  Bottles, Moral, Champagne

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.500, World Classic

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• The widespread belief that Yuppies as a class would perish from Brie-cheese poisoning turned out to be over-optimistic.

  Alfred Adler

  Optimistic, Class, Yuppies

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• Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Giving, Drug

  Thomas Szasz's remarks at the 35th Anniversary and Human Rights Award Dinner of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, www.szasz.com. February 28, 2004.

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• I have bitten down or swallowed a few pellets through the years. My uncle had his appendix removed and there were over 100 lead pellets in it. He might have died of lead poisoning. Now that is eating a lot of game!

  Phil Robertson

  Uncles, Years, Games

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow.

  Dennis Miller

  Men, Choices, Abortion

  Dennis Miller (1999). “Ranting Again”, Main Street Books

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• The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Birth Control, Earth, Problem

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• The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.

  Henry Lindlahr

  Health, Medicine, Drug

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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• Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.

  David Brewster

  Foundation, Favour, Chance

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• How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suicide, Trying, Poison

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

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• Holding on to anger is like poisoning yourself and hoping someone else will die.

  Gautama Buddha

  Art, Holding On, Hoping Someone

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